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EPOV

After the incident with Lauren both my sisters seemed to orient themselves around Bella. Herding off human girls and as a result interacting more with them than they usually did. I could see both of them along with the humans enjoying the attention each of them got from each other. But they were unable to keep Bella from the people she wanted to interact with who to my displeasure were the other mythical creatures present at the party. I guess I will have to accept the fact that Bella would always be attracted to danger! I couldn't help giving Bella furtive glances. She was talking with Jacob and they were laughing. It was after a long time that I got to see them together.

Her whole face lights up when she talks to him and he has a special smile he reserves for her. I know that because he thinks of it as his special smile. The wolf is head over heels in love with my Bella and I can't help the feeling that she has feelings for him. She laughs with him something she rarely does with me. She's more serious when she is with me. It is as if the weight of the world is on her shoulders. I know we have our special moments but what she is when she is with the mutt is something else totally. It's as if another Bella has taken the place of the Bella who is with me. She is more like a little child given her favourite candy. She talks freely laughing eagerly at his jokes. I caught an errant thought in the mutt's mind that she refers to him as her sun. I have to admit that the care free happiness radiating from her is something I rarely see in her. It is as if the sun is shining and making her blossom. Every laugh she shares with the mutt is like a piercing dart to my stone heart.

I noticed that she never blushes with him and never seems to take time thinking things through before talking like she does sometimes with me. The gist of their conversation was about a little girl named Claire and the things she was making one of the other mutts who imprinted on her do. I feel the familiar taste of jealously springing in my being. I recognise that feeling fully knowing it is my love for her making me feel this way. I know the mutt feels the same when she's with me.

Suddenly the mutt pulls out a small pouch from his pocket which he presents to Bella. It is a gift he has made for her as a graduation present, a tiny carving of a wolf in a small bracelet. He holds her hand putting it on her wrist. She beams at him and admires it. My jealousy knows no bounds. I felt like jumping in the middle separating them. I was just about to make my move when I felt a tiny hand clasping me.

"Edward don't. She'll only resent the intrusion. You have to be careful. Right now we really do not want to anger the dogs. We need them for the battle and for Bella's safety." Alice admonished me.

"He's holding her hand." I mutter the words at vampire pitch but the mutt hears me and gives me a stare. "Don't you dare interrupt blood sucker. You get your time with her all the time, now it's my turn." I'm astonished at the mutt's acute hearing. That is one more thing to note about our natural enemy. I guess right now I should be grateful that they are not our enemy and would be able to hear if the vampire army attacking us spoke in that tone. But all I felt was jealousy.

"Edward, he helped her. You broke her and he was the one to pick up the pieces and put them back together. It shows in the very easy friendship they have with each other. Don't ever try to take away her friend. I don't approve of the dogs as friends but I know how much pain it caused me to be separated from Bella." The pixie was right it was my own stupidity that brought them together. I guess I will have to put up with the results.

It was some time later that I heard a commotion and rushed to see what was happening. Alice was distributing multicoloured candy whistles to everyone. Everyone was giving Alice incredulous stares. It took me just a minute to realise what must have happened. Of course vampires didn't eat and she would have had no idea which food items would be best for kids and which were for adults. Until recently I was clueless as well. But I knew a bit more thanks to Bella. And what Alice was distributing was definitely meant for kids. Unlike Rosalie and Esme she didn't even have any human memories. I was glad Esme had got the food catered. I saw Bella rush towards Alice.

She pulled Alice to the side.

"Alice what are you doing?"

"These looked nice and the package said it was a must have for a party. I'm sure everyone will enjoy eating it. Lovely colours don't you think Bella?"

"Alice, they are for kids not high schoolers."

Alice's face fell. "Oh! I didn't know. Everyone is going to think I'm crazy." I knew this was going to make poor Alice the laughing stock of all the humans.

To my surprise Bella walked directly to the front of the music platform and took the mike. Only her slight blush and the way she tripped twice on her way to the platform indicated how nervous she really was. I could hear her heart beat increase.

"Hello everyone, I hope you all got your candy whistle. We can all blow it now to celebrate the end of high school! Everyone cheered. She blew the whistle she had in her hand. And everyone else followed. I grabbed one for myself and blew on it. It smelt awful but I didn't want to be left out. I saw the others doing the same making various faces as they smelt the awful smell.

"Welcome to adulthood"

I saw Alice pull Bella towards her room and followed. The pixie's thoughts were a jumble of emotions ranging from mortification to out right humour. And she kept picturing some multicoloured bags.

"Ok Alice what is it? This had better be good you dragged me all the way upstairs." Bella was pouting. I took the opportunity to put my arms around her pressing myself against her back, kissing her beautiful lips.

The pixie's throat clearing brought us down to earth.

"Bella… well ah… I guess I shouldn't be giving these out either…." The pixie sheepishly pointed at the huge array of pink coloured plastic bags decorated in multihued rainbows and pictures of teddy bears on her bed. Bella took one and opened it. Inside were a wide assortment of multi coloured children's candy.

"No I don't think so Alice. But I don't mind having one. They look delicious. Where did you get all this candy Alice?"

"Well I went to this party store. That's where I got the candy whistles. The lady at the counter saw them and told me that a party wouldn't be complete without goody bags. So I bought all this at her suggestion.

I saw a slow smile spread across Bella's face. "Did you by any chance mention to which age group you were catering the party to?"

"Well, I guess I didn't" The pixie was feeling a bit embarrassed.

I heard footsteps on the stairs and the distinct smell of dog.

"Who mentioned candy? Can we have some?" Embry one of the other two wolves who came with Jacob was the first to ask.

"I'm sure Claire would love some." It was the more slightly built wolf whose name was Quil who spoke up. I guess we didn't have to worry much about the candy.

"Hey you guys you can have some but I think Alice should give the rest to the real kids at the children's orphanage."

Bella admonished the enthusiastic mutts. I found myself smiling through the whole exchange. The mutts seemed to really like Bella as much as she cared about them and they seemed to enjoy each other's company. Suddenly I felt like the outsider in all this, a hundred year old grandpa watching over his chargers. I wanted desperately to fit in and be one of the real teenagers.

The party had finished around two in the morning much later than we expected. After the last of the kids had left we made preparations to leave for the clearing where we agreed to meet the mutts. Bella was spending the night with us and she was adamant that she wanted to go. She climbed on my back as usual for the ride. As soon as her warmth surrounded me the pent up need I had managed to keep hidden throughout the party resurfaced. I had to hold her close to me again. To reassure myself that she was mine. I decided to take a slight detour on our way and to kiss her thoroughly before the meeting.

Once we were far away from the others I lowered Bella to the ground.

"Where are we Edward? I thought we were going to the baseball field?" Bella looked around puzzled.

"I couldn't wait another minute without kissing you love…. I need .. I need to be close to you.." I knew I was close to loosing it. I desperately needed her.

As soon as the words were uttered Bella launched herself into my arms and planted a hungry kiss on my lips. I hugged her closely to me then pressed her hard against a near by tree. I needed her now. The strain of the evening was finally getting to me. I wanted to mark her as mine. Even though Bella had taken a wash I could still smell the faint scent of the mutt remaining on her. I wanted to erase it. She was mine and no one else's. I knew I was being rougher with Bella than usual and it seemed to turn her on more rather than scare her. I pushed off her coat and tore away her blouse revealing her beautiful breasts in a black bra. I sucked her pebbled nipples through the material. She was moaning loudly pulling at my shirt. I threw it away letting her warm hands run over me. I shuddered as she released the button in my jeans and touched me under my underwear. I knew she could feel the wetness there. I pulled her to me grinding myself against her. I loosed the draw strings on her pants and the elastic waist allowed me to put my hand inside to touch her sweetness. She was very aroused and very wet and moaning loudly.

"Oh Bella love I want to taste you so much. Will you let me?"

"Oh…yes..yes" She was barely coherent. I was just about to lay her down when I realised where we were. I groaned.

"Not here love. Not on the forest floor. I'll have to wait till we get home."

"Want…want you…" Bella was still frantically kissing me while stroking me even harder. I realised we were too far gone to wait till the meeting was over to get home for a release. So I did the only thing I could I caressed her soft core bringing both Bella and myself a much needed release. I heard myself let out an inhuman growl with my release with Bella screaming. There was no Charlie in the woods. There was no one to hear us except for my family who were waiting in the clearing. They were also not within normal hearing range. Even if they heard I was sure they would ignore the sounds we were making.

Suddenly I heard a deep piercing howl from the direction from which we came towards the clearing. I heard the thoughts at the same I time as I found myself flying through air landing on the ground. I looked up in shock to see a russet wolf standing in front of Bella, facing me. I was taken by surprise. "What was the blood sucker doing to Bella. Oh god her cloths are all torn. Is she ok?" The wolf was staring into Bella's face, standing very close to her within touching distance.

"Bella no" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I saw Bella reach out to touch the russet fur on the creature's head.

"Jake it's ok. We were just.. you know making out… he was not hurting me…."

The wolf took a step back but continued to stare at her face unconvinced. It was then that I saw the state of Bella's clothing. I had torn her blouse to shreds luckily her bra was intact protecting her modesty and the elastic on her pants held it at her hip covering her below the waist. She hugging herself with her hands crossed in front of her to cover her bra. What had I done? The wolf was right to be scared. I had been acting like a total savage. My own clothing was in disarray. My trousers were at my knees but my underwear was still on. I heaved a sigh of relief. I didn't want the whole mutt population getting a glimpse of me. My shirt was lying on the ground beside me. I picked it up and threw it at Bella straightening my clothes. I was scared to go near the mutt and Bella since it might anger him more. Bella quickly put the shirt on. I noticed that some of the buttons were missing. She then put her coat back on and buttoned it so that the shirt didn't show. I slowly made my way towards Bella. She was still trying to pacify him.

"Oh Jake… I'm sorry it's hurting you… I really am but you have to understand…like I told you before…" The wolf whimpered and sank to its knees on the ground and Bella kept stroking its head as if this is something she does everyday. For a moment I felt the jealousy flare but the wolf's next thoughts put my mind at ease. This was the first time he had come this close to her while in wolf form and he was also scared of accidentally hurting her.

"The bloodsucker shouldn't have been touching you like that he could have hurt you."

"Jake… he's my boyfriend and he and I have the right to be with each other anyway we want to."

He howled in response. "The leech cannot be trusted he could attack you any moment. You should have never got so close to him." I don't know how they were talking to each other but it was clear she understood what he was thinking. I took another measured step towards them. I was scared to make any sudden movements and make the mutt angry.

"Now I'm getting angry. You have no right to dictate how I decide to spend my time with him."

The wolf got up. Shook himself and whimpered again. Then turned on his heel and walked away with his head hanging ears down and his tail between his hind feet.

"Aw.. Jake…. You know how I hate it when you play the sympathy card. Fine. Go sulk. See if I care." She was now folding her hands in front of her with a look of determination. I barely suppressed a grin. She looked so cute trying to be mad. I could tell that this was a typical Jacob and Bella conversation with the mutt playing on Bella's sympathy. She just wanted to go and comfort the mutt but was also determined to get the point across that what she did with me was none of his business. I was surprised how well both Jacob and Bella had handled the situation. It didn't seem to make any difference at all to their friendship that he was now a huge wolf and she was still a vulnerable human. I had actually feared that the mutt would attack me after he saw the state Bella was in before taking the time to grasp the situation. He was in fact very angry but he controlled himself. It was obvious that he had exceptional control for a young wolf.

Just then Jasper walked in. "Alice told me to give this to you." He took off the jacket he was wearing and handed it over to me. I put it on thankful to have something to cover myself with. I was not looking forward to facing the wolves bare chested. I put my arm around Bella and walked slowly towards the clearing.

So what did you think? Please do review and let me know.

I also want to recommend some other stories I liked.

You calm me down by Haleydove - What would happen if Bella's blood appealed to Jasper in the same way as Edward? Can Alice stop him from making a huge mistake?

You belong to me by Edwardismymaster - 3 Years after New Moon The Cullens are a mess, they all think Bella is dead, when they spot her by chance how far will they go to get her back in the family. Possessive Cullens. Dark

Moth to a flame by trs 1 - Twilight universe with a supernatural twist. Passions collide when Bella and Edward's unthinkable attraction ignites a flame that neither can ignore. Dark Edward, OOC, Rated M for some smut, language, and lemons.